Platform engineering is quickly becoming a go-to strategy for IT departments, including in healthcare systems. Gartner estimates that 80 percent of software engineering organizations will have internal platform teams by 2026, and Puppet’s 2023 State of DevOps Report found that 93 percent of organizations identify platform engineering as a “step in the right direction.”
Kyle Shaffar, vice president of software engineering at Vizient, says a primary reason for the widespread adoption is that platform engineering can help hospitals run more efficiently. “Even when you’re not actively building new software, you’re always maintaining what you have,” he says. “If there are things you can streamline, it’s worth the investment to simplify your operations.”
Here’s what healthcare organizations should keep in mind as they prepare to adopt platform engineering.
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